Politics. Awaiting the mistakes of the past World Leaders call for any cause at 19 vaccine to be free and available to everyone. For Testing Facilities and examine means the number of covered 19 cases could be much higher in a country already ravaged by war. 2 vs later and still behind bars Human Rights Group calls on saudi arabia to release a group of womens rights activists. In this news hour with jobless figures out of the United States 3000000 people a file for Unemployment Benefits in the past 7 days brings the nationwide cigarette to more than 36000000 since coronavirus lockdowns began at mid march shell White House Correspondent can be how could joins us now live so kimberly how do these numbers add to the picture that were see. Well thats a very bleak economic picture because these layoffs are happening across all sectors of the u. S. Economy and what were also starting to see now is in issue only these were in sort of the Restaurant Industry or retail but now as businesses rea
Universally available. For Testing Facilities in yemen means the number of covered 900 cases could be much higher in a country already ravaged by war. Because a virus is wreaking it more havoc in the u. S. Jobs market almost 3000000 people have filed for Unemployment Benefits in the past 7 days its down from previous weeks but a brings the number of those seeking benefits to more than 36000000 since the lock down of a crowd of virus began our White House Correspondent can be held joins us live now kimberly so lots of picture do these new numbers paint for us. Well they show 2 that this is an economy that is not going to bounce back despite the fact that this u. S. President and many governors across the United States are pressing for their economies to reopen well the number of claims for this week is down slightly from previous weeks the number overall continues to climb and could continue for a number of weeks projected to go as high as 46000000 americans filing unemployment claims o
A deal that was supposed to be a step towards peace in afghanistan is due to began in a few hours time on the taliban in the u. S. All began with her calling a were duction of violence starting at midnight if the 7 day deal proves a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for peace talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the New York Times has published an opinion piece by the deputy leader of the taliban titled what we the taliban want. Shit. Conny says the withdrawal of Foreign Forces of the 1st and foremost demand of the armed group he goes on to say a liberated afghanistan will have an islamic system where all afghans have equal rights and that includes the rights of women granted by islam to access work and education despite 18 months of talks and qatar accordion says washington does not trust the group completely and that the feeling is mutual he also says the taliban will be committed to all International Conventions as long as the
My name is matt and an associate professor of policy and government and director of undergraduate program in philosophy, politics and economics. Ppe here at george mason. The ppe program is honored to be the institutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkens lectures. We are grateful for the trust and support placed by the university. The attraction between the pgd ferdinand of these lectures im glad you asked. I spend a fair amount of time explaining what ppe is and what makes the program unique. I can go on. Really, i can go on but today im going to go straight to the bottom line. It explained that the scope helps students that create Better Solutions through the difficult and pressing problems that arise in the public life of a complex society. The problems that arise in the process in what Roger Wilkins in the first chapter of his autobiography had called with immense understatement complicated at times such as there are today. Ppe offers the foundation for students to build meani
Excellent panel and were start off with heather. Thank you so much. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about the intersection of climate stress and security. In many ways, the arctic is telling us, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most stress as the arctic is warming two to three times faster than anyplace on the planet. In many ways, were now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it because Many Americans do not know the United States as an arctic nation to bring it home, this is homeland security. We now have a new coast that requires our protection. That is what in many ways the nexus between the rapid diminishment of the arctic polar ice cap is now creating new borders, new coasts to protect. Which is why we need enhanced coast guard presence. Certainly thats through the enhanced ice breaker component, what we call a polar secur